Pros And Cons Positional Review Part Two (#FantasyFootball)

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A: They hate you and Your Fantasy Football team. But mainly you…

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Prior to the season starting, I went to the masses and started listening to what the streets were saying. That’s right. Because the streets have nothing better to do these days than to talk about Fantasy Football, starts and sits, buy lows and sell highs. But by now, after nearly 25 weeks of my gibberish and rhetoric, you know what this article is and means to the audience. I literally mention it in my opening template every week. I take the Pros and Cons of players the Fantasy Football Community is harping on about and break down the good and the bad, the upside and the downside (you get the drift right?) of what certain players have to offer. I selected a handful of players from each position at the start of the year and am now following up with how their season finished and what their future looks like.

At Running Back, I selected both Kenyan Drake and Lamar Miller, who will be this week’s focal point one last time to follow up on how their seasons unfolded. How about we start with the basic numbers…

Statistical Overview

Highest Position Finish / Week: Kenyan Drake at Indianapolis in Week 12; Drake finished with an 8-32-1 TD Rushing with 6-5-64-1 TD in the Receiving game and potted himself as the RB4 Overall. Lamar Miller crushed Tennessee in Week 12 for 12-162-1 TD Rushing with another Reception for 5 Yards and was the RB8.

Lowest Finish / Week: Kenyan Drake in Week 4 at New England, Drake had 3-3 Rushing (that’s not a typo, 1.0 Yard Per Carry) and had 2-1-13 Receiving to finish that week as the RB57. Lamar Miller, injuries aside, had a 14-49 day at 3.5 Yards Per Carry in Week 4 at Indianapolis and finished as the RB42.

Best Fantasy Performance / Week: Kenyan Drake provided peaks and valleys, but in terms of a consistent day of use, when both teams met in Week 8 his game at Houston could have been how his use should have been; 12-58-1 TD Rushing with 2-2-37-1 TD Receiving; he was the RB8 that week. As for Lamar Miller, nothing he did would compare to what he did against Tennessee in Week 12, but in that same game against Drake’s Dolphins, he himself had a decent outing against for an 18-134-1 TD afternoon to finish as the RB15.

Preseason ADP (per fantasyfootballcalculator.com): Kenyan Drake was Drafted as the RB19 or 3.07 Overall. Lamar Miller was Drafted as the RB21 or 4.03.

My Projections –

All projections are for the respective Players ceiling

Kenyan Drake – 

Predicted Rushing: Attempts: 240 / Yards Per Carry: 4.4 / Yards: 1056 / TDS: 7

Receiving: Targets: 64 / Catch Rate: 66% / Receptions: 42 / Yards Per Reception: 7.0 / Yards: 294 / TDS: 3

Total: Touches: 282 / Yards: 1350 / TDS: 10

Results Rushing: Attempts: 120  / Yards Per Carry: 4.45 / Yards: 535 / TDS: 4

Receiving: Targets: 73 / Catch Rate: 72.6% / Receptions: 53 / Yards Per Reception: 9.0 / Yards: 477 / TDS: 5

Total Touches: 173 / Yards: 1012 / TDS: 9

Was I In The Ballpark? – Not particularly, no. Checking over what I thought Drake could be as the lead back I was (I, like many, had thought he could be) fairly conservative in his production. With all the ‘Pros’ listed below, there was no reason why he couldn’t be a poor mans (a really, really poor mans), Devonta Freeman. His 4.45 YPC is not bad at all, but the 120 Attempts were. For example; Rookie and Undrafted Free Agent Phillip Lindsay finished as the RB12 Overall and had 72 more Carries in a Running Back Committee similar to what Kenyan Drake was in. Drake’s YPC is with the same amount of extra carries (72) would have added another 320.4 yards to Drakes total, it doesn’t seem like much but it adds up. Hypothetically if Drake had the same Carries as Lindsay with those added Yards it would have seen Kenyan Drake end up as the RB11 Overall. That lack of workload stifled anything Kenyan Drake could have been. No, I’m not bitter.

PREDICTED FINISH; RB13-24 / END OF SEASON FINISH; RB17

Lamar Miller – 

Predicted Rushing: Attempts: 272 / Yards Per Carry: 3.62 / Yards: 984.64 / TDS: 5

Receiving: Targets: 42 / Catch Rate: 66.66% / Receptions: 28 / Yards Per Reception: 6.04 / Yards: 169.12 / TDS: 2

Total: Touches: 300 / Yards: 1153.76 / TDS: 7

Results Rushing: Attempts: 210 / Yards Per Carry: 4.63 / Yards: 973 / TDS: 5

Receiving: Targets: 35 / Catch Rate: 71.4 / Receptions: 25 / Yards Per Reception: 6.52 / Yards: 163 / TDS: 1

Total: Touches: 235 / Yards: 1136 / TDS: 6

Was I In The Ballpark? – I was pretty close on Lamar Miller. His YPC was bolstered by a handful of ‘boom’ performances but outside of that, it was a relatively average Lamar Miller season. ‘Average’ is the keyword. It’s how you felt if you drafted him at the end of the 4th into the 5th turn and ‘average’ is generally what you got.

PREDICTED FINISH; RB13-24 / END OF SEASON FINISH; RB22

So, why Kenyan Drake?

That’s a really simple question. When it came to Kenyan Drake, it felt like the stars were aligned for him, on paper at least. He broke out towards the end of the 2017 season as there was literally no competition for Targets or Touches as Jay Ajayi was traded mid-season to Philadelphia (and won a Super Bowl, that’ll teach him!) and Damien Williams got hurt and ultimately landed in Kansas when the season ended. Jarvis Landry and Julius Thomas moved on which meant the Targets were there which was great for Drake as his ability in the Receiving game was great.  So the ‘x+y=z’ theory for Drake made sense; no competition for Targets or Touches plus recency bias equals volume and potential production for Drake. He was the last one standing and produced when he had to, thus it should have been an easy answer.

And, why Lamar Miller?

Well, it wasn’t going to be Alfred Blue, and D’Onta Foreman was still on the PUP list, Lamar Miller (like Kenyan Drake) was literally all that was left of the Texans backfield in a high-powered Offense with Deshaun Watson returning. They didn’t Draft a Running Back or recruit one from Free Agency so it seemed like it was all systems go for Miller prior to the season starting. With Watson, Miller was above good in production in 2017, so we had a small sample of what could be. Again, we can use the ‘x+y=z’ model for Miller; Watson is returning and Miller had produced plus there’s no competition for work which equals volume and potential production for Miller. He was the last one standing and produced when he had to, thus it should have been an easy answer.

What other Running Backs were available?

Here is a list of Running Backs that were Drafted between the RB13-24 range (RB2) where both Kenyan Drake and Lamar Miller were selected at prior to the season starting:

Devonta Freeman, Joe Mixon, Jerick McKinnon, LeSean McCoy, Alex Collins, Royce Freeman, Derrick Henry, Jay Ajayi, Mark Ingram, Marshawn Lynch. Five of these players ended up on the Injured Reserve at some point during the year and only Joe Mixon finished the year higher (scary when you think about it) than both Drake and Miller as the RB9 Overall. 

Where did they finish?

As I mentioned above, both Drake and Miller finished as an RB2 Overall which was predicted. But as I mentioned above the players who were drafted in the same RB13-24 range, here is a list of players who finished in the same range who were drafted much later:

Derrick Henry in Round 4 (in between where Drake and Miller were being Drafted). Tevin Coleman and Chris Carson in Round 6. Tarik Cohen, Marlon Mack, Aaron Jones and Adrian Peterson in Round 8. Nick Chubb in Round 10. Austin Ekeler in Round 14.

Only Jordan Howard (whose ADP was in the mid-late Second Round) was drafted ahead of both Drake and Miller and finished as a mid-range RB2.

What Changed?

For most of this ‘RB2’ group keywords for all of them were ‘inconsistent’ and ‘average’ if they remained ‘healthy’. Some like Marlon Mack had a slow start with injuries and once he worked through them ended up taking over that aspect for their team. Some were in the dreaded ‘RBBC’ like Chris Carson who once the Seahawks figured out he was their best option after a few weeks stayed the course with them.

Still, if these guys hit their average they produced unglamorous mid RB2 numbers which really at the time was about 11 Fantasy Points Per Week in Half Point Per Reception scoring formats unless there was an anomaly within their outcomes. Either a ridiculously high or low scoring game which skewed their numbers. Those valleys were the inconsistencies which plagued their season. Derrick Henry, for example, had less than 60 Yards Rushing for the first 13 weeks of the season with a handful of Touchdowns to salvage a week or two for you. But, in Week 14 he popped for 238 Yards on the ground and another 170 Yards the following week. The RB2 Running Back in 2018 was at times a headache, unpredictable and hard to sell away.

Remember this?

In Weeks One and Two, Jordan Howard had a 5-5-25 and a 4-3-33 Outings in the Receiving game alone (hey, remember the narrative that Howard can’t catch? Boy did he prove us wrong and tilting!), which had him as the RB23 Overall in Half Point Per Reception (HPPR). He saw multiple Target games only four more times in 2018 and it wasn’t until Week 15 and 16 where they were back-to-back. Between Weeks 3-14 when those double-digit Targets didn’t happen he averaged 8.78 points per game, which was salvaged by 6 Touchdowns. Think about that for a second; about a third of Jordan Howard’s Fantasy points were from Touchdowns during that timespan, which as we know is too unpredictable to pick – we would all be rich if we could predict that! That gave Howard a brutal 5.5 Points Per Game (PPG) floor which killed you if you gave up a Second Round pick for him in redraft which is where his ADP had him. We gave up a Second Round pick for 5.5 PPG in HPPR for just about 10 weeks. His first month was 15.7, 9.8, 16.1, 2.5. Up and down, up and down. But to sum it all up, Howard from Week 7 onwards had only one double-digit scoring game that occurred without a Touchdown. No Touchdown, no RB2 Numbers.

Ouch.

DO YOU KNOW:

• In 2019, Kenyan Drake will earn a base salary of $810,000, while carrying a cap hit of $1,015315 and a dead cap value of $205,315. At the end of the 2019 season, Drake will be an Unrestricted Free Agent. At this time next year, Drake will be 25.
• In 2019, Lamar Miller will earn a base salary of $5,500,000 and a roster bonus of $703,125, while carrying a cap hit of $7,203,125 and a dead cap value of $1,000,000. At the end of the 2019 season, Miller will be an Unrestricted Free Agent. At this time next year, Miller will be 28
• In 2019, Jordan Howard will earn a base salary of $720,000, while carrying a cap hit of $782,007 and a dead cap value of $62,007. At the end of the 2019 season, Howard will be an Unrestricted Free Agent. At this time next year, Howard will be 25.

THE PROS

Kenyan Drake: 

Everyone being drafted in the same range as Kenyan Drake were feasibly in a committee too, but Drake had a clearer path to success. The Colts, Raiders, Jets, Ravens all had ‘Running Back By Committees’. So when you consider the players that were drafted in that RB2 range, they all had a commonality of being in the dreaded ‘RBBC’. Alex Collins had Buck Allen and Kenneth Dixon on his roster, Marshawn Lynch had Doug Martin and Jalen Richard on his tail. Derrick Henry with Dion Lewis and so on… and so on… They all had competitors within the same team to potentially take snaps. And even though Drake had internal competition for work you would have thought that Adam Gase loved his favorite little toy in Kenyan Drake and was a supporter of him with the infamous quote of ‘I think we have a guy that’s really looking to bust out and that can do multiple things, he can line up in the slot. You can use him in empty, you can use him from the backfield you can create a lot of different matchups’. An endorsement like this would give You confidence Drafting Drake in the 3rd Round, right? Wrong. Because…

Frank Gore was meant to be on a ‘play-count’. Frank Gore was the ‘lead’ back with 154 Attempts which didn’t feel like much (24th amongst all Running Backs) but still had more carries in fewer games than Drake had. Surprisingly for Gore, he had no Rushing TDs in 2018 which is the first time that has happened in his long and illustrious career.

Lamar Miller:

Miller can be used effectively in the Receiving game and boasts an 80% catch rate. Miller stacked a 71.4% catch rate this season off just 35 Targets; which feels lower because he generally averaged 42 Targets a season, but he did miss a few games so he would have gone close to that benchmark.

He finished as an RB2 or higher every week that Deshaun Watson played before ruining his (Watson’s) knee. A major ‘Pro’ for Lamar Miller was the fact that he was never worse than an RB2 Overall when Deshaun Watson played in 2017. This year he had three games finished as an RB1 and five games finished as an RB2 – or 8 total – out of 14 games this year. So, 57% of the time Lamar Miller was a serviceable RB2 or better. Now, he also had six games finished as an RB3 or 43% of the time, which also isn’t that great, yet expected – which is kinda sad when you think about it. But if you are into spinning math like I am (apparently, who knew?!), Miller had eight games finished between the RB20 and RB35 which was also 57% of the time. So, when he did finish as an RB2 it was at the back end of that range and usually not anywhere near that back-end RB1 area you are hoping for from a guy you probably ‘waited’ for.

D’Onta Foreman wasn’t due back for the start of the season so it was either Miller or Alfred Blue. Yeah, Foreman really came back too late to be anything. He barely played in the last few games at the end of the season and at that rate it was barely worth tracking. But if there was ever a buy-low candidate right now I think Foreman could be it. Miller’s contract and cost (which I get into below) could be enough for the Texans to look at alternatives next season. Alfred Blue was a pest if you rostered Lamar Miller. He popped up every now and again and still nabbed a 150-499-2 TDS which is enough to protrude Miller’s totals. Blue also had 20 Receptions as well. Not sure if you needed to know that, but it’s out there now…

The Outcomes:

Kenyan Drake:

He’s still there! And Maimi has finally named Brian Flores their new Head Coach and he may not want an aged Frank Gore. Most Running Backs now are very much involved in the Passing game and that is something that Kenyan Drake has always excelled at and a 73-53-477-5 TD season is nothing to sneeze at. A major positive for Kenyan Drake is he totally dominated the Snap Share (545 to Gore’s 330) which Ranked 17th Overall amongst all Running Backs, and Offensive Snap Percentage (59.2% to Gore’s 35.9%) which also Ranked 10th Overall amongst all Running Backs in 2018. So, Drake was out there, a fair bit and still finished as a mid-range RB2 despite the ‘lack of work’. Crazy, right? Let’s see if that continues in 2019.

Lamar Miller:

The Rookies coming out of College arent specifically as great or as plentiful as the previous years have been, and the Free Agents available have seemingly had issues on and off the park. Lamar Miller has done enough to be a role player for the Texans but I can’t see a world where D’Onta Foreman (at least) doesn’t take over the main or ‘lead back’ role in 2019, outside of injuries. Whether the Texans can justify paying Miller that much for a lesser role is another thing though…

THE CONS

Kenyan Drake: 

It took injuries and a Jay Ajayi trade for Drake to be trusted, but, when the other players were on the roster he was nowhere to be seen. Drake had more of a visible role this year but still rode the inconsistencies that had you questioning whether to start him each week. And when a guy puts out fewer than 10 Rushing Yards a game four times it makes him very hard to trust. Once again, think about that; an RB2 who you drafted in the late Third Round had less than 550 Yards Rushing and gave you less than 10 Yards Rushing in a game 25% of the time and only four times (or another 25% of the time) did he actually have over 50 Yards Rushing in a game. Ok, his Receiving talents saved him but still, brutal.

Remember how I told you how much Adam Gase was into Kenyan Drake above? Well, he followed up that love with a classic Gase Contradiction: ‘both (Kenyan Drake and Frank Gore) are going to play, they’ll be on the field at the same time, depends on what personnel grouping I’m in to start the game’. And this to be fair to Gase is pretty much what we saw. Gore got more Attempts but Drake had more time on the field (more on that below). I hate calling Adam Gase ‘honest’ but in this case he was.

If you weren’t sure – there were other Running Backs being drafted in and around where Drake was, so you can still wait then take your pick! There was such a small sample size in Kenyan Drake and they recruited players from different avenues – there was enough to warn you off Drafting Kenyan Drake, you could have waited to grab… no one. The next best option at the end of the season turned out to be Chris Carson, who had doubters of his own due to injuries and the Seahawks Drafting Rashaad Penny in the First Round, was going in the 6th Round himself. Carson finished as the RB14 with 181.4 Points.

Lamar Miller:

His YPC had dropped year after year and was sitting at 3.73 per Attempt. I’m not the most impressed person you’ll meet when it comes to Yards Per Carry – Melvin Gordon proved that you can have a less than amazing YPC and still be a leading Running Back. He got that marker back up to the 4.63 YPC this season but the volatility of it went something like this: In Week 3 against New York, Miller had a 10-10-0 game for an average of 1.0 YPC. In Week 11 against Tennessee, Miller went 12-162-1 with a 13.50 YPC. Those two games give you a wide range of statistics but combined it would tell you he averaged 7.25 YPC. But did he?

On top of that on average, he wasn’t seeing more than 17 Carries a game. So that average dropped to 15 Carries per game but you can’t be too surprised considering Deshaun Watson was healthy and was making moves on the ground himself, taking slightly from Miller. Will Fuller and a trio of Tight Ends stepped up along with the dominant DeAndre Hopkins too. That alone is enough to suggest that use may drop in the coming season.

Lamar Miller is fairly expensive in 2018 (5th highest paid running back overall), can he be cut in 2019? He was expensive in 2018 and he produced what he always produced so I can’t think the Texans didn’t get what they paid for, right? I have mentioned above what Miller could cost heading into 2019 and with Foreman now healthy and a healthy salary cap at their disposal I would be surprised to see Houston want to pay him that much moving forward when there are other options available…coughLe’Veon Bell*cough…

The Outcomes:

Kenyan Drake: 

He got ‘Gase’d’. He got ‘Gore’d’. He gave you a frustrating 2018 season. Yet, despite everything in his way to succeeding he still had a relatively good season. He finished as a mid-range RB2 which is crazy to think because he was extremely up and down this year. But the doubters will be out again next season because Drake despite all the positives still couldn’t strangle the work away from a 35-year-old Frank Gore and Kalen Ballage is a bigger version of Drake with a second year under his belt. I think every issue we have with Drake will still be there until the new coaching staff come in and make a statement about what they expect from him and take a stance on the Running Back group. My guess is that won’t be until after the Draft.

Lamar Miller: 

He was (and still is) at times continually ‘just a body’. And sometimes during Bye weeks or when other players were dropping due to injuries or suspensions that exactly what you needed. You never felt good about it and there’s a huge chance you benched him when he actually produced. Which again sums up the frustration of Drafting Lamar Miller. You were ok to drop a guy you invested a Fourth Round pick into the bench some weeks because you just didn’t believe in him. I’ll be honest, I’ve played Nyheim Hines over him a few times this year because I was looking for better upside; I was happier to play a guy who was the clear second option on his team for the potential ‘boom’ over a guy like Miller who probably got me – on an ‘average’ day, maybe, if I was lucky – 10 points. Kind of sad when you think about it.

WAY TO EARLY 2019 BOLD PREDICTIONS

Kenyan Drake:

Have we seen how to use Kenyan Drake effectively and poorly all in the same year? Absolutely. Frank Gore could again be a pest for Drake if they keep him about for another year and Kalen Ballage may be something after his Rookie year showed next to nothing. He’s a talented Receiving Back, but getting the bulk of the workload seems like a dream. Drake will finish with Giovani Bernard type numbers and usage – which is fine, it’s just not what you would want for a Third Round pick – which he won’t be in 2019. He could be a hell of a backup to a true workhorse too. So, with that said… Kenyan Drake will be a backup… to Free Agent Running Back, Mark Ingram. I’m calling my shot with Ingram now, and that will pretty much hammer any hope of Drake getting an uptick in workload.

Lamar Miller:

I mean would I be surprised to see the Houston Texans flat out cut Lamar Miller this offseason? Not at all, and I think that happens. The Texans have had a lot going for them this year but it was the lack of a dominant run game each week that showed up. Yes, their Offensive Line wasn’t great, but that Offensive unit still put up respectable points collectively Deshaun Watson, DeAndre Hopkins, Will Fuller, and Keke Coutee; this is a real nice quartet. So, with that said… Lamar Miller gets cut and is ultimately replaced by Le’Veon Bell, while Miller ends up as a New York Jet with former Head Coach in Miami, Adam Gase. They both know what they are getting into (sometimes it’s better the devil you know), and they could probably get Miller on the cheap and can be a good mentor for Elijah McGuire moving forward and play a role in a timeshare.

Woah!

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SUMMARY

I started out the Kenyan Drake article out a few months back by saying ‘the reasoning for him will almost counterintuitively be the case against him‘ and I still stand by it and it has held up. Kind of the point of a Pros and Cons piece right? But it feels like with both Kenyan Drake and Lamar Miller there were two dividing factors which I feel can separate your anxiety about either selecting him or passing on him:

1. Them Touches, Targets, and Receptions bay-bay!
2. Small Sample size bias – Oh No!

In this instance let’s use Kenyan Drake as the example:

In 2017 the Targets and Receptions came for Drake only when Jay Ajayi was traded and Damien Williams got injured (and subsequently left for Kansas in the offseason), but prior to that; Drake had pretty much nothing. And when you did the math over a 16-week overview Kenyan Drake would have had 84 targets in 2017 for 56 Receptions. That’s what was extrapolated: 2017’s small sample into a 2018 projection for Drake. He did, however, clear 75-53-477-5 TDS so it feels like in this case Drake’s Receiving game can be relied upon to stay consistent which after how the season unfolded is a small win. Here’s the problem; we did have a small sample size of a guy and jumped on board and bought into him without really checking similar circumstances or the ADP of players similar to Kenyan Drake or Lamar Miller (with Deshaun Watson). To make this counterpoint I will give you one example of a player who had similar circumstances to Drake heading into 2018 –

• In 2018, PLAYER X had a Rookie Drafted early in the same position that he plays.
• PLAYER X also had a Free Agent brought in for ‘goal-line’ work as he had a much bigger frame in the same position he plays.
• PLAYER X had another player in the same team that received near cult-like hype from the analysts and experts in the preseason due to how His season in 2017 also unfolded and jumped to a 5th Round ADP despite scoring only 8.8 points more than PLAYER X that year.
• In 2018 he finished as the RB8 – with the previously mentioned ‘Committee’ that he was in and was Drafted with a 10th Round ADP.
• In 2017, PLAYER X was the RB40 Overall (finished only 6 places and 20-odd points fewer behind Kenyan Drake had) and was Drafted as the RB36.
• PLAYER X in 2016 finished as the RB28 with an 8th Round ADP, outperforming his previous prediction of the RB38.

PLAYER X is James White, who was in a similar a to a worse position than what Kenyan Drake and Lamar Miller were both in prior to the season starting. A much better team, yes, but still buried on an uber-competitive depth chart. He saw the Patriots Draft Sony Michel and bring in Jeremy Hill, while towards the end of 2017 saw Rex Burkhead get a stack of playing time down the stretch.

White crushed them both in nearly all metrics:

• White (94 Attempts) had roughly 55% fewer than the total Carries that Lamar Miller (210 Attempts) had, and about 22% less than what Kenyan Drake (120 Attempts) had, and White had the same amount of Touchdowns as Miller (5) and one more than Drake (4). In this instance, White (an average of 5.8 Rushing Attempts per game) was crushed by Miller (an average of 15 Rushing Attempts per game) as someone who had ample opportunities and to a lesser extent Kenyan Drake (an average of 7.5 Rushing Attempts per game) who had slightly more opportunities. James White, in a better team, produced better numbers of lesser work.
• James White had more Targets (123 targets) than he did Rushing Attempts (94) and had only 7 fewer Receptions than he did Rushing Attempts.
• James White had more Receiving Touchdowns (7, with 12 Total) that either Drake (4) or Miller (5) had Rushing Touchdowns. Drake did have 5 Receiving Touchdowns which helped his end of season score.

This offseason I spent a stack of time trying to dissect the Miami Dolphins backfield out, and it proved fruitless. Frank Gore got to work, and when he slowed down due to injuries, instead of Drake getting more work; they phased Kalen Ballage in. Now they have a lack of leadership, possibly a different Quarterback and handful of Receivers they could flat out cut and a Defence that was under the cosh most of the year which kept the Running game at times to a limited scheme.

I also compared Lamar Miller to a backpack I once bought and explained why you shouldn’t have to pay for a premium in the higher rounds to get RB2 numbers that Miller would likely get you as he slips in ADP. And I was relatively right. Imagine grabbing Jordan Howard in the Second Round instead of an A.J. Green or Michael Thomas? You could have had an upper-echelon Receiver and grabbed that uninspired (and maybe) 10 to 11 PPG from Lamar Miller with your fingers crossed.

What I do know is that both players will be coming into interesting offseasons. Their contracts make both of them expendable as both teams look to potentially go in different directions, they could also have their staff show faith in them and see more work before their deals run out. But how any of this ends up for is anyone’s guess…

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